Hook-lock for furniture and the like.



R. P. MAYDL. HOOK LOOK FOR FURNITURE AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 23,1908.

924,91 2. Patented June 15, 1909.

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RICHARD PAUL MAYDL, OF WIlRZBURG, GERMANY.

HOOK-LOCK FOR FURNITURE AND THE LIKE.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD PAUL MAYDL, 9 Leistenstrasse, Wiirzburg, Bavaria, Germany, have invented an Improvement in Hook-Locks for Furniture and the Like, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in fastening devices for connecting two adjoining portions of articles of furniture, so that they may be readily attached and detached.

My improved fastening device consists primarily in forming a device of two members secured to the articles to be attached to each other so that said members will lie in reverse end to end relation to each other when in looking engagement.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the two members of the improved fastening device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the companion member of the device. Fig. 3 shows one of the two members mounted in a recess cut in the wall of an article of furniture. Fig. 4 shows one of the two members secured to a specific form of support.

As shown in Fig. 1, A is a bar having an offset end I) provided with a tongue like portion a. The other end 0, of bar A, is bent over in parallel relation to the opposite ofiset end, a slot (Z being provided in the bight of said bent over portion. Screw holes e are provided in the bar A for receiving screws, by which the bar may be attached to the article to be fastened. Fig. 2 shows the companion bar B and similar reference letters in Fig. 2

designate similar parts as in Fig. 1.

The two companion bars A and B are to be fastened to the articles which are to be connected so that the tongue like portion of one bar engages the slot in the bent over portion of the other bar and vice versa.

In Fig. 3 one of the two bars, A, is shown mounted in recess 9 of the wall of an article of furniture and this arrangement facilitates very close attachment of the second article of furniture to the first one.

In Fig. 4 the companion bar B is shown mounted to an angle iron F as a support. The flange f of the angle iron serves to maintain the bar B above the plane of the wall to which the support is secured so that it may easily engage companion bar A. The other Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 23, 1908.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Serial No. 469,022.

flange f of the angle iron is adapted to conceal the recess g, when the two adjoining portions of furniture are fastened together and thus prevent dust or insects from getting into the recess.

One of the advantages of the new fastening devices is that the two plates form the device and each may easily be made of a single strip of metal. They may also be made identical, and two parts only are necessary to form a complete fastening device.

I claim:

1. A hook lock for connecting furniture and like parts consisting in two identical plates, adapted when reversed relatively to each other to hook together each of the said plates being bent over at one end and provided in the bent portion with a slot the other end being bent or cranked and provided with a pin or part adapted to enter the slot in the other part.

2. In combination with separate articles formed and designed to be fastened together, of a two part fastening device, one part being secured to one article and the other part to the other article, each part of said device having an integral slotted bent over portion on one of its ends and of the same formation, and each part also having on its opposite end an integral locking element constructed and arranged for locking engagement with said locking members for the purpose of uniting said articles.

3. A furniture fastening device comprising in combination two locking members, one of said members being secured in a recess of one article of furniture, a support mounted on another article of furniture, to which the other member of the device is secured, said support being adapted to cover the recess in the first named article of furniture, said members being provided on their ends with cooperating locking elements and being disposed on said separable portions of furniture, so that they will be in reverse end to end relation when in looking engagement.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD PAUL MAYDL.

Witnesses HEINRICH FIETH, ELISABETH HELLMUTH. 

